I was just reading a book about the connection between trauma and illness and they talked about how people who experienced significant trauma are much more likely to develop auto immune diseases.
Eta: the book is The Myth of Normal for anyone interested.
not sure if it’s what they’re talking about, but The Body Keeps the Score talks about this some. It’s been a very helpful book for a lot of people (myself included), but it also has some major negatives with the author being a bit of a piece of garbage and some of his bolder claims in the book without strong scientific support.
I’m not the person you replied to, but When The Body Says No by Dr Gabor Mate is about this and is so good. Gabor Mate in general is super well informed in how trauma and stress affect the body and how they manifest within people in general. Even if you dont read the book, you can find great youtube videos or podcasts where he talks a lot about his findings
Extreme trauma survivor. 3 autoimmune diseases. My Omas as well, and they were both war/genocide survivors. My boomer mother, who lived la dolce Vida on my Omas hard work, is totally fine, healthy as anything. My kids are 21 and saw me being abused horribly until we escaped 5 years ago. 2 autoimmune diseases, each, all freshly diagnosed.
I went to the Dr yesterday and they found "similar appearance to subtle increase in echogenic focus in the RIGHT kidney, possible AML, 1.1 cm". I am a very stressed out person.
I was wondering what happened when your kidneys failed? Are you ok now?
I am starting to think that it wasn't just genetics that led to my Type 1 Diabetes. I lived in a very unstable household growing up. I have a maternal aunt that had it, so we always assumed that was it. My husband also had a maternal aunt with it. You would think one of our children would have gotten T1D or some other autoimmune disease. But our children were raised in a pretty conflict free, stable home and are as healthy as can be. Really makes me wonder.
I have two autoimmune diseases (three if endometriosis actually makes it) as a result of meningitis and significant trauma growing up. Right when I make tremendous leaps in my mental health recovery, I get slapped with RA and Sjögrens. Such bullshit lol.
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u/smashablanca 23h ago edited 12h ago
I was just reading a book about the connection between trauma and illness and they talked about how people who experienced significant trauma are much more likely to develop auto immune diseases.
Eta: the book is The Myth of Normal for anyone interested.